Brewed Fresh Daily

Bloomba is a mail client that I read about in BusinessWeek a while ago. I downloaded the 30-day trial, and like it so much that I just spent about 5 hours loading all of my RSS feeds into it. Yes, that's one of the reasons I like it. It's a powerful search client, that will find what you're looking for in all your email folders and RSS subscriptions. The drawback is, there's no way to import your existing feeds, so I opted to hack the subscription.csx file, instead of using the wizard for event single one of the almost 150 feeds I'm subscribed to. Not a lot of fun, but it's well worth the investment for the productivity I gain. That's the other thing Bloomba does well, filter spam. Instead of me filtering the first pass with another program, Bloomba does a good enough job that I don't have to. I'm almost ready to say goodbye to both Microsoft and Mozilla email clients. The only thing that stands in my way is the $60 licensing fee. Productivity enhancements do have a real cost.